Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 13
She mounted the stairs; they were steep, having been made up of rough blocks of broken marble and the capital of a fallen pillar.
Who acts: beam, stairs · What happens: mount, be, make up, break, fall · To what, where: stairs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beam, stairs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stairs | det |
| 4 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mounted | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 steep | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 steep | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 steep | cop |
| 8 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mounted | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 made | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 steep | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 made | compound:prt |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 blocks | case |
| 15 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blocks | amod |
| 16 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 marble | case |
| 18 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 marble | amod |
| 19 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blocks | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 capital | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 capital | det |
| 22 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marble | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pillar | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pillar | det |
| 25 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 pillar | amod |
| 26 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 capital | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | beam | the stairs | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | stairs = stair | steep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make up | gerund · perfect · passive | stairs = stair not said here | of rough blocks of broken marble and the capital of a fallen pillar | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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